Academic Position : null

Education : Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (Maîtrise droit international et européen (hons.) - 1986); University of Vienna (Lehrgang für Internationalen Studien, Diploma (hons.) - 1986); Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (DEA droit international privé and droit du commerce international (hons.) - 1987)

Experience as counsel:

Numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, AFA, SCC, ICSID and Chambre Arbitrale de Paris (investment, construction, joint ventures, financing, mergers and acquisitions, insurance, distribution, and general commercial matters); arbitration-related proceedings before French courts (challenge, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, disputes regarding the validity and scope of the agreement to arbitrate, the constitution of the arbitral tribunal and the professional liability of arbitrators)

Experience as arbitrator:

Chair, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc and under the Rules of the ICC, CMAP, AFA, CCLuxembourg.

Publications:

• "Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereign States, A New Milestone: Signing ICC Arbitration Clause Entails Waiver of Immunity From Execution Held French Court of Cassation in Creighton v. Qatar, July 6, 2000," 15 Int’l Arb. Rep. 48 (Sept. 2000)

• "La reconnaissance en France des sentences rendues à l’étranger : l’exemple franco-suisse," 1995 Bull. ASA 118 (with B. Leurent)

• "Waivers of Immunity from Execution : A New Turn by the French Court of Cassation," Vol.30 (8) Mealey's Int'l Arb. Rep. 22 (2015)

• "France," in Getting the Deal Through - Arbitration (S. Wilske and G. Wegen eds., Law Business Research, 2012 - 2014)

• "Emanation de l'Etat, renonciation à l'immunité d'exécution: du bon usage de concepts en vogue," note following CA Paris 31 Jan. 2013, 2013(2) Rev. arb. 460

• "La nouvelle loi écossaise sur l’arbitrage [Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010]," 2010(4) Rev. arb. 801 (with C. Baker Chiss)

• "Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereign States, A New Milestone: Signing ICC Arbitration Clause Entails Waiver of Immunity From Execution Held French Court of Cassation in Creighton v. Qatar, July 6, 2000," 15 Int’l Arb. Rep. 48 (Sept. 2000)

• "La reconnaissance en France des sentences rendues à l’étranger : l’exemple franco-suisse," 1995 Bull. ASA 118 (with B. Leurent)